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Hinchingbrooke House

Originally a nunnery established in 1200, Hinchingbrooke passed into the hands of Richard Cromwell in 1536, on the dissolution of the monasteries. He converted the nunnery into a Tudor country house. In 1627 the house was sold to the 1st Earl of Sandwich. The house remained with this family, the Montagus until 1962. In the Seventeenth Century the diarist Samuel Pepys was a frequent visitor here. His uncle worked at Hinchingbrooke, and a sister of Pepys's grandfather had married the 5th Earl, Sir Sidney Montagu. Their son Edward held prominent positions in the governments of Oliver Cromwell, and Charles the Second, and Edward was Pepys's boss in Whitehall for many years.

Today Hinchingbrooke House is a school. The house is open to the public on Sunday afternoons in the summer months.

Hinchingbrooke House is just outside Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, on the B1514

Contact:

phone: 01480 375678

web site: http://www.hhpac.co.uk/default.htm